# Russia Today \[RT\] interrupting C-SPAN broadcast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 17, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400 "2017-01-17T16:42:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/1 "2017-01-17T16:42:01Z")
A few days ago RT /Russia Today interrupted a C-SPAN broadcast. I’ve not heard anything more about it since. Did anyone ever find out how this happened? What was the cause? Story… C-Span Online Broadcast Interrupted by Russian Network… > **[C-Span Online Broadcast Interrupted by Russian Network (Published 2017)](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/business/media/cspan-russia-today.html)** > > A feed from RT broke into Representative Maxine Waters’s speech on the House floor in midsentence, in what may have been a technical routing error. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/2 "2017-01-17T16:48:24Z")
According to C-SPAN it was an “internal routing error”: [https://twitter.com/cspan/status/819713947045658624/photo/1?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/cspan/status/819713947045658624/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/3 "2017-01-17T16:56:07Z")
It is the “further investigation” I have not read anything about anywhere… ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/4 "2017-01-17T17:46:24Z")
A similar thing happened on [SCTV](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0691969/). ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/5 "2017-01-17T17:48:30Z")
Fake news of course. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/6 "2017-01-18T16:57:07Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Fake news of course. What factual information do you base this statement on? FYI - Your statement sounds VERY MUCH like what Putin and his cronies are saying about everything lately! Putin Says Accusations in Trump Dossier Are ‘Clearly **Fake** ’ [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/putin-trump-memo.html?\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/putin-trump-memo.html?_r=0) Putin: Those Who Spread **Fake** Allegations About Trump Are ‘Worse Than Prostitutes’ > **[Putin: Those Who Spread Fake Allegations About Trump Are 'Worse Than...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/putin-defends-trump_n_587e1d6ee4b03549ebc067d4)** > > He also accused the outgoing U.S. administration of trying to undermine the president-elect's legitimacy. Putin TV: Aleppo Slaughter Is **Fake** News > **[Putin TV: Aleppo Slaughter Is Fake News](https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-tv-aleppo-slaughter-is-fake-news)** > > All of those horrific images coming out of war-torn Aleppo? Totally bogus, say Kremlin mouthpieces and American conspiracy-mongers, who are now calling aid fundraisers ‘professional propagandists.’ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/7 "2017-01-18T21:38:33Z")
I would hope he means that the stuff saying that it was a hack was fake news. Though I wouldn’t call it such, unless they flat out said it was a hack. If they just said it might be, that’s accurate. As long as they don’t keep pushing it at a hack, when CSPAN says they don’t think it was one, and says they’ll announce otherwise if they learn they were wrong. If and when that announcement comes would it be okay to bring it up again. ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-today-rt-interrupting-c-span-broadcast/777400/8 "2017-01-18T21:55:00Z")
**Si Amigo** may also have been joking. Cable signals are routed through “Network Operations Centers” which service many channels. I’m not a tech expert so I don’t know exactly how this would happen, but it’s possible the feed got switched over accidentally. The fact that a channel that chronicles the US governing process was replaced by Russian propaganda is suggestive, but we’d need to know more to say it was a hack.